{"id":65270,"date":"2018-11-01T14:57:41","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T13:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/11\/01\/seven-samurai-tops-critics-poll-of-best-foreign-language-films\/"},"modified":"2018-11-01T14:57:41","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T13:57:41","slug":"seven-samurai-tops-critics-poll-of-best-foreign-language-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=65270","title":{"rendered":"Seven Samurai tops critics&#039; poll of best foreign-language films"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Akira Kurosawa epic beats Bicycle Thieves to top of BBC\u2019s 100-strong list that includes just four female-directed filmsA critics\u2019 poll conducted by the BBC has voted Akira Kurosawa\u2019s 1954 swordsman epic Seven Samurai as the greatest ever non-English-speaking film.The BBC culture website polled more than 200 \u201cfilm experts\u201d from more than 40 countries, including critics, academics and curators to create a top-100 list. Seven Samurai beat Bicycle Thieves (1948) and Tokyo Story (1953), which came in second and third respectively. Another Kurosawa film, the multi-perspective crime fable Rashomon (1950), was in fourth place, while his Ikiru (1952) and Ran (1985) also made the list, at 72 and 79. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2018\/nov\/01\/seven-samurai-critics-best-foreign-language-films-akira-kurosawa\" target=\"_blank\">Seven Samurai tops critics&#039; poll of best foreign-language films<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Akira Kurosawa epic beats Bicycle Thieves to top of BBC\u2019s 100-strong list that includes just four female-directed filmsA critics\u2019 poll conducted by the BBC has voted Akira Kurosawa\u2019s 1954 swordsman epic Seven Samurai as the greatest ever non-English-speaking film.The BBC culture website polled more than 200 \u201cfilm experts\u201d from more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}